How DezzyDood started their web page design journey

Company name

Gated Shores Interactive

Overview

http://www.gatedshores.com - GSI combines interactive agency expertise with their Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) practice. Most agencies work with freelancers and contractors to supplement their development teams, but are quickly dissatisfied with the hiring process, the quality and consistency of the work and the costs. Software development shops can improve consistency and quality, but few can comprehend the nuances of delivering marketing websites and the free-flowing nature of agency projects that are also constrained by tightly fixed budgets.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

We typically talk to the president, COO and/or head of technology/production for design/creative agencies. They want to know that they can trust us, know the agency biz very well and can help them keep production profitable.

Requirements

You are only re-designing our home page - PSD's only. The site's Jquery slider feature between pages will remain and will continue to be the main nav feature.

The catch is you must work within the blue space on our current site. The only existing elements that must stay are the navigation arrow and "welcome to gsi" with "g's" that are part of the global footer. Everything else, including the blue, can change. The new homepage design will need to present a lot of text in a well-organized and elegant manner. The design needs to make the amount of content appear simple/easy to read.

I like what http://www.absolunet.com/home.html has done with the various pages on their site. The way they have layered different levels of text content using Javascript or Flash animation is cool. I'd like the main content headers to be big web 2.0 size fonts so your design must accommodate the supporting content in an elegant manner. The font should be one of the standard browser fonts so it looks consistent.